Cinéma Vérité, great shots of kids, street, building, excellent footage...and then symphonic music ! ;-)

This film attempts to show the viewer what the Police Action Leauge (PAL) is doing for the comunity. Oddly enough although it does have a narrator he isn't used as much as you'd think he would, the film's producers opt instead to show us what the Pal program is like through visuals of kids playing while the robotic narrator chimes in with things like "The Playstreet program is not just throwing a bat and ball to children and telling them to play" which adds an element of bizzarness that otherwise would be soreley lacking in this film. Thiers also some good (if not wierd) music selections used. However I'm still left asking myself why did I give this a four, I guess my answer would be because the Kid's look like thier having a great time, but on top of that the presentation used is pretty bizzare.

Although this film starts out REALLY strongly by showing kids playing in slums with whatever they could come up with, it quickly loses it when the music and most especially, the narration comes up. Play Street deals with the Police action league's efforts to get kids off the street and well, start playing on them. We do get to see kids playing, doing activities and the like, but it's bogged down by somewhat odd music and Mr Roboto narrating. Still worth the view for the images, especially at the beginning.

An excellent short film describing the work of the PALS organisation in helping the children in the slums cope with life, by improving their recreation. b/w sound